IBM debuts Telum chips, built for AI inferencing workloads
IBM unveiled its first chip with AI inferencing acceleration, named Telum. The chip will allow users to conduct tasks like fraud detection while a transaction is in progress.
The chip contains eight processor cores with a “deep super-scalar out-of-order instruction pipeline, running with more ...
European Union watchdogs want to ban AI-powered Facial Recognition
European Union privacy regulators are calling for a ban on AI technology used in identifying people while they are out in public. They firmly believe that the continued use of such technology can pose a high risk to the public’s privacy.
Data protection watchdogs for the European Union recentl...
Ex-Google CEO says EU’s AI bill is a big setback for Europe
Eric Schmidt, the leader of the U.S. government initiative to integrate AI into national security, warned that the EU’s AI transparency requirements would be ‘very harmful to Europe.’ Schmidt spoke at POLITICO’s AI Summit and criticized the provisions of the European Union’s AI Bill.
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Unity sells image datasets for AI training
Unity has announced its Computer Vision Datasets. It is a tool that allows developers to easily create large amounts of images of certain types of objects. AI models can then use the images to train computer vision algorithms.
The tool builds on Unity's experience in developing 3D environments. ...
Sophos and Qualcomm partner to provide endpoint protection
Sophos Group announced on Tuesday that it is partnering with Qualcomm to provide Intercept X endpoint protection to 5G PCs powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon compute platforms.
Qualcomm’s main 8cv compute platform unveiled in December 2018, offers seven-nanometer CPUs designed for Windows 10 P...
Google fired founder and co-lead of Ethical AI team
The news comes weeks after she was locked out of her work accounts. The reason for this was that an investigation was going on, related to her objections concerning her co-lead, Timnit Gebru.
Google sent a spokesperson who made a statement after the investigation was concluded.
The spokespers...
Google fined in France over misleading rating system for hotels
Google has been fined €1.1 million over misleading star ratings for hotels in France. The company has agreed to pay the fine after it had been applying its own algorithm-driven system of ratings for hotels applied on its search engine and Google Maps.
However, back in 2019, several complaints ...
Microsoft says its spellchecker is “most comprehensive” ever
The AI-powered "Speller100" aims to help deliver better Bing Search Engine Results.
Microsoft has announced a new AI system for spellchecking. They have named it Speller100, because it corrects spelling in over 100 languages, according to Microsoft.
A team of Bing Search and AI workers introd...
Google Cloud launches Apigee X to help enterprises scale up
On Wednesday, Google announced the launch of Apigee X, the new major release of the Apigee API management platform it bought in 2016. Amit Zavery, Google Cloud’s head of platform, said that if we look at current events, especially after the pandemic started in 2020, the volume of digital activiti...
Most global companies still not ready to support AI/ML programs
Most global organizations do not have the necessary resources to accommodate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) initiatives. This information comes from a new survey conducted by Rackspace Technology.
After polling 1,870 IT pros, the report shows that 82% of organizations wor...
Microsoft’s computer vision AI beats humans at captioning images
In its efforts to improve the quality of life for the visually impaired by using AI systems, Microsoft has made an AI capable of automatically captioning images in a way that outperforms humans. This kind of technology may one day be used to automatically caption images shared online so that those ...
Google investigating an AI ethicist for sharing sensitive documents
The action marks the second scandal in recent weeks involving Google's AI ethics team.
Google has suspended the corporate account of Margaret Mitchell, a lead on its ethical AI team, according to a report in Axios. Google has claimed that the suspension is because she downloaded and shared sens...